Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin Wasson

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

Fiona Shaw

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

Jacques Barzun

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

Jackie Collins

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

James Gleick

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Elton John

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.

George Sanders

Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

Jean Paul

A scholar knows no boredom.

Jim Harrison

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

Fulton J. Sheen

The reason we're bored is because we don't love anything.

Christina Aguilera

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

Christian Louboutin

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

Fran Lebowitz

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

G. H. Hardy

No one should ever be bored. … One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can’t be bored.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Jewel

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Jewel

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Francoise Hardy

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

Christian Bale

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

Frederick Buechner

To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

Fernando Pessoa

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

Felicity Jones

I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge.

Iggy Pop

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

Hugh Prather

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

Guy deBord

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.